Confused about the local housing market? Take a glance at the visual for West Vancouver house market activity the past couple of years; the trend of sales, new listings, inventory, Sales to Active Listings Ratio, Sales to New Listings Ratio and the House Price Index! Metrics used in real estate: Months of Inventory…
Our real estate board, Greater Vancouver Realtors® (GVR®) just released July stats and reports: newly listed properties registered on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) rose nearly twenty per cent year over year in July, helping to sustain a healthy level of inventory in the Metro Vancouver1 housing market. On the demand side, the Greater Vancouver…
The number of transactions on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) declined in May compared to what is typical for this time of year in Metro Vancouver. This shift has allowed the inventory of homes available for sale to continue to accumulate with over 13,000 homes now actively listed on the MLS® in the region. The…
Actively listed homes for sale on the MLS® in Metro Vancouver1 continued climbing in April, up 42 per cent year-over-year, breaching the 12,000 mark, a number not seen in the region since the summer of 2020. Sales Greater Vancouver REALTORS® (GVR)2 reports that residential sales3 in the region totalled 2,831 in April 2024, a 3.3…
The BCREA (British Columbia Real Estate Association) reports that a total of 7,427 residential unit sales were recorded in Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) systems in April 2023, a decrease of 17.7 per cent from April 2022. The average MLS® residential price in BC was 995,506 down 5.6 per cent compared to the average price of…
There is nothing typical about our real estate market since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic. 2023 first three months sales are down by quite a bit relative to 2021 and 2022 unusually strong market years. North Vancouver sales down 43% and 54% respectively from 2022 and 2021 Q1’s. West Vancouver down 37% and…
The BC housing market is entering 2022 with the lowest level of active listings on record and significant demand-side momentum. That means strong sales should persist through the first few months of the year and supply will remain severely limited. As a result, we expect to see continued upward pressure on home prices in all…
